2.5 million x $10 - Comcast must provide stand alone internet service for 2.5 million lower income households for $10 a month. There was concern that Comcast could use its power as a cable TV provider to railroad people into getting cable if they wanted internet.

Hulu - NBCU was one of the co-owners of the online TV site. The merger agreement stipulates that the new Comcast can't "exercise corporate control over or unreasonably withhold programming from Hulu."

Open internet - while not locking Comcast into the classic definition of net neutrality, there was some strong language:

Comcast is prohibited from unreasonably discriminating in the transmission of an independent online video distributor's legal network stream to a Comcast broadband subscriber. And Comcast must keep its 12 megabits per second service available to customers in markets where it is upgrading its networks, presumably to keep the environment for competing video providers viable.

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